HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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A policy of not participating in international trade or diplomacy.
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Conference Meeting where the major European powers negotiated and claimed territory in Africa
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Domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country.
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Unprocessed Natural products used in production (cotton, rubber, palm oil, sugar, wheat, guano, metals, and minerals)
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Detailed explanation-1: -Berlin West Africa Conference, a series of negotiations (Nov. 15, 1884–Feb. 26, 1885) at Berlin, in which the major European nations met to decide all questions connected with the Congo River basin in Central Africa.
Detailed explanation-2: -Germany took Namibia (German Southwest Africa) and Tanzania (German East Africa). Spain claimed the smallest territory-Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni).
Detailed explanation-3: -Geography.about.com – Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 to Divide Africa.
Detailed explanation-4: -It established the rules for the conquest and partition of Africa, in the process legitimising the ideas of Africa as a playground for outsiders, its mineral wealth as a resource for the outside world not for Africans and its fate as a matter not to be left to Africans.
Detailed explanation-5: -The General Act established 7 major terms: ending slavery; recognizing King Leopold’s Congo claim; free trade in Niger and Congo basins; freedom of navigation on Congo and Niger rivers; Principle of Effective Occupation; spheres of influence; and that new European land claimants had to notify the 13 other countries.